I took this image with Chad Sayers in Portillo, Chile last summer. We were involved in a photo contest, and the first few days of the contest didn’t have too much new snow to offer. When it hasn’t snowed in a while, you have to maximize creativity, light, and energy to make an explosive image. Glad to see it got used in a nice spot.
G3 has recently undergone a complete website re-vamp, and we worked together on finding a series of images that met their needs, mostly black and white images. Here is one of them:
Shames Mountain is a small operation just outside of Terrace, BC. There is only one chairlift, and one t-bar, but the snowpack and easy access to amazing backcountry are qualities they can boast about. I have twice visited and skied at Shames, the most recent on assignment with Powder Magazine. Financially, it has been very difficult to keep a resort going in the small town, especially in the North where economic hard times have been going on a lot longer than the current recession. However, it was clear to see that the town truly benefited from having the small operation there – and can be seen as a public good, similar to a publicly funded rec-centre. Of course, there is no current public funding for Shames (or any other operation that I know of).
Check out this article about one proposal from an international group trying to turn it into a co-operative, it certainly is an interesting idea for a ski area model.
Here is a great talk about the importance of photography from David Griffin at National Geographic.
Thanks to everyone who attended the gallery opening on Tuesday. It was great to see everyone. The exhibit will be on from September through until the end of October, so if you’re in Whistler check it out. Print sales are available both through myself (email me) and the Millennium Place Gallery.
Once again thanks to Kastle and Arcteryx for helping out with the fundraiser aspect of the event ( Kees + Claire Memorial Hut Project ), they helped us raise $1300. Hats off!
Below is a video of some of the setup, click here for HD.
Gallery setup from Jordan Manley Photography on Vimeo.
In the spring I was approached by the Millennium Place Gallery to a show – I have long considered doing a gallery exhibit, but had never gone through with it. For one thing, its really expensive to do it right. Anyhow, I agreed to do it and it has been a fun experience, though lots of work to get prepped. I went through all my favorite images and selected 21 – from Alaska to Antarctica, but many from here at home too. I focused on what my favorite types of images are, but tried to also balance that with what people might like to see on their own walls. Half are printed on canvas, the other half are traditionally framed. I’m personally a huge fan of the canvases, and part of me thinks I should have done everything in canvas.
The opening will be this coming Tuesday the 8th of September, at Millennium Place in Whistler, doors at 7pm.
There will also be a fundraiser portion to the evening, Arcteryx and Kastle auctioning off some gear with proceeds going towards the Kees & Claire Memorial Hut Project, so thanks very much to John Irvine from Arcteryx, and Sigi Rumpfhuber from Kastle for helping out that – cool to see they are giving back to the ski community in BC.
Over the past five years I’ve done some work at my Dad’s company, just a week here or two weeks there, quick, and…well, dirty. My Dad is an environmental engineer/consultant – he designs systems that basically deal with the flow of our garbage. Because, when you put your garbage out on the curb it doesn’t just magically disappear. It goes on a truck, to a transfer station, dumped, then pushed into another truck, and depending on where you live, most likely it gets hauled (a long way) to a landfill site.
The work that I did from time to time (often with some of my best friends, which made the work tolerable) was called waste auditing, code word for sorting through bags of garbage and categorizing them. Different types of paper, plastics, metals, recyclables and non recyclables, a whole wack of categories had to be sorted. The goal, to find what people were throwing out in order to see what could be recycled further or see what kind of energy could be extracted from the waste. Turns out almost half of your garbage is organic waste – fruits, veggies, stuff that could be composted and therefore not even enter the waste stream. Go figure.
Despite the messy nature of the job, it was an interesting type of surveillance into people’s lives, you can tell a lot about a household from what they throw away. It took us to some interesting places as well. The images below were taken in Red Deer, Alberta in the winter. Red Deer isn’t known as the warmest place on earth, so for this sort the garbage was all frozen, which cut down on the smell. At various times when I should have been working, I’d take off my manky rubber gloves and snap some photos. I’m no longer doing garbage sorting, for a variety of reasons, but I do look back on it fondly for some odd reason. Click below to browse the photos:
This is always an exciting time of year, when ski magazines start rolling off the press once again after a 6 month break. You get to see what editors selected and where they showcase your images in the mags. Here is a cover from Sweden, Aka Skidor, somewhere behind all that layout is a photo of Chad Sayers from our amazing time spent in Monte Rosa, Italy last February.
I’ve spent most of the month of August at sea, on a sailboat, exploring the waters between Vancouver and the top of Vancouver Island. The past two weeks we journeyed up through the notorious Seymour Narrows, up Johnstone Straight, to the Broughton Archipelago which lies at the base of Knight Inlet. Its a true cruising paradise, with few people, and loads of wildlife. We saw grizzlies right off the back of the boat at anchor, witnessed huge schools of salmon jumping for days, and were overtaken by a hundred Dolphins, not to mention Orca and Minke whale sightings.
